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it isn’t possible to create something that doesn’t serve a purpose. what “good” artists and other art professionals have that makes them experts is 1) an understanding of this fact…

that has less to do with japan and more to do with the fact that niche music doesn’t attract laypeople. you can find the same kinds of shows all over the united states for example

i recently discovered that this approved list of things that currently matter actually has a name, it’s called the overton window: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

I disagree, I think the keyword is $1, because at least for me as strictly a user (not a stakeholder or business owner) generating a meme is simply not worth that cost no matter ho…

Modern "EDM" producers actually receive a lot of criticism for these practices from both critics/academics and laypeople. I think the massive commercial success and general enjoyme…

Seems like you're criticizing the powers that be that act as authorities for what should be considered art. The importance of this kind of criticism has been historically recognize…

don't data centers and the rest of our electrical infrastructure still need natural gas and other limited resources to function?

Don't know if I agree with this assertion, but food for thought: “…as far as power is concerned, the streets are dead capital! Nothing of value to the power elite can be found on t…

Yeah if anything /pol/ is driving the success of it as a catalyst for thought, they're keeping it relevant and worthwhile. Idk much about Shia's intentions but never underestimate …

Well that's kind of like going to a library and complaining that nobody wants to chat. Art goes to the MoMA specifically to be "taken out of the world" and isolated.

Reminds me of something Putin said to journalists regarding global balance of power: "International Relations is much like mathematics — there is nothing personal about it."[1] [1]…

do you really think all art should be universally accessible and as convenient as possible? do you really think you can have meaningful experiences with that mindset?

A computer's capability for imitating a human doesn't take away the value of human-made art. If anything, it's another medium. Otherwise you're arguing that people don't care about…

The arts/humanities maybe? Because the human intellect and human emotions will always be relevant and valuable to other humans. Sidenote: when I say "arts/humanities" I'm not just …

oh the humanities

The burden for some may be too much for leaving the country to be a more viable option than staying and fighting for change. Also some would argue that you can't run forever.

>the awesome lifestyle of flitting from grant to grant as a semi-celebrity in the international jet-set art world This reads like a snide remark toward art and artists in general..…

Wow: Total number of operating satellites: 1,381 (includes launches through 12/31/15)[1] Wasn't aware that the +15,000 satellites (loosely defined) currently orbiting the Earth (ac…

Today rbobby submitted a video [1] explaining a new(ish?) "polymagnet" technology which earned 13 points, then 4 hours later iheredia posted the same topic [2] which currently has …

Could be, but that'd be an assumption at best, and "negging" at worst. Also, one could just as easily see a "massive" assignment as arrogance from the employer.

I was a product architect in advertising for a brief period. About half the job involved writing all sorts of technical documentation, including functional specifications for devel…

For further reading that spans more broadly with the underlying idea here, I recommend: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/objectivity I'm not done with it but so far it's been an epis…

Am I wrong to think about the "graphical" aspect of visual programming languages as another layer of abstraction? If this is the case, doesn't that take some power away from these …

mattdotc's idea of a Real Hipster in the actual fringe, trend-setting-in-2016 sense may or may not be accurate, but that's not necessarily critical to his/her intention behind usin…